Hackers Attack Twitter and Facebook

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What if global Internet hackers launched a coordinated attack to disrupt our latest channels of communication? Even worse, what if their success was just a small scale test run? Well, Internet hackers have just disrupted top social networking sights Twitter and Facebook exposing the vulnerability of our favorite ways to send personal messages and use the Internet to market our goods and services.

Experts expect that a single group of hackers is most likely to blame. The hackers used a method known as a "denial-of service" attack where they basically flood the server with requests for communication and therefor block out everyone else. The results left Twitter immobile to users for a span of several hours and kept Facebook users from accessing their accounts and updating their personal profiles.

Aleskei Oreskovic reports that "The incidents follow a wave of similar cyber attacks in July that disrupted access to several high-profile U.S. and South Korean Web sites, including the White House site. South Korea's spy agency said at the time that North Korea might have been behind the attacks. "

It remains unclear whether or not we are dealing with a global hacking force intent on disrupting our daily communication. The best thing security specialists can do is squash the bug before it grows.